Hair waving device



Sept. 22, 1931. s. B. TUSIS 1,824,641

HAIR WAVING DEVICE Filed Now/r12. 1930 INVENTOR E, /4 BY y W 'WITNEJS;

// ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 22, 1931 UNITED STATES.

*so'rnniz; TUSIS, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

PATENT, OFFICE- mm; WAVING nnvron Application filed iiloveinber 12 1930. Serial No. 495,221.

- This inventin relates to hair waving, and f the primaryobject ther-eof 'isto provide a noveland improved device for giving a wave to the" hair which will persist with a perfect natural wave effect as attempted to be obnent wave by the application of heat, will be protected against breakage or damage tothe individual hair filaments dueto stretching any one or more thereof beyond'the elastic limit. I p, v

A feature of the invention is the simple construction of a hair waving. device of improved action, and 'the'silnple manner in which such device may be connected to the hair and to the scalp, without. discomfort to the latter from heat when heat is'used, yet

' or stand of hair filaments being waved, and at the same time in a readily attachable an detachable manner.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter jspec ifically pointed out, or will become apparent, as the specification proceeds.-

WVith the aboveindicated objects in view,

the invention resides in certain novel' conment of parts, clearly described in the following specification and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which latter shows an embodimentofthe inventionas at present preferred." i i In said drawingsz Fig. 1 is an elevatlonal view,'showing a strand of hair being wound upon said embodiment, the scalp being indicated in dot and dash lines;

with the device securely in place on the group structions and combinations and arrarigecated at 9.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the elements of said embodiment;

Fig. 3 is a similar view of another of said elements;

Fig. 4 is a perspeotiveview on a very greatly enlarged scale, showing still a third element, and also indicating, in one. case in dot'and dash lines, in another case in broken lines and in another casein dotted l nes va- 1 rious possible ways of winding a hair strand relative to said element;

Fig. 5 is fragmentary radial sectional view, taken onthe line 5 -5 of Fig; 3, and showing the elements of Figs. 2 and 3 in section and certain parts of Figs. 1 and 2 in sideeleva tion,.'this Fig. 5 being a sectional view illustrating the elements when assembled as shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6 illu'strates at the left thereof the type of wave which may finally be obtained in that part of the hair strand Wound as shown in dot and dash lines in Fig. 4 and to the right thereof the tendril effect which may be imparted to a terminal subdivision of said hair strand when wound according to the broken and dotted lines of Fig. 4.

Similar. reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings. 7

Referring to the drawings now more in detail, the reference character 6 indicates in Fig; 1 the new device, asthe same is here illustratively embodied for illustrating one of the many possible ways of carrying out the invention, in its entirety. In said F ig, 1 the scalp of the person whose hair is being waved is indicated at 7 and a strand of hair nowrec'eiving windings incident to a wav- 'ing operation is indicated at 8. As is common, the basal portions of the filaments formingthis particular strand may be wrapped and tied by a suitable. cord or string as indi- As will be seen best from Figs. 1 and 4., the

new. device includes as important elements thereof a pair of elongate and more or less parallel, and preferably resilient, or resiliently anchored, posts. rods, wires, tubes or the like, in the present case indicated at 10a as being integral subdivisions "of a single 1% desirably of the same size, are made con vemently as clrcular discs as shown, andha ve matching holes 11a and 12a at or near their centers, and also similar radial slots ll'b-and 12?) running from said holes to the peripheries of the discs.

, In order that the discs 11 and 12 may be coupled whereby one may be rotated fraction- -'12b in registry (to cause the two dlscs to be ally of the other, to place the slots 11?) and straddlingly advanced over. the basal portion .of the hair strand), or in the reverse difrec'tionto stagger said slots (as shown in Fig. 1., thus to make the two discs a d1sen gageable' sleeving device for said basal portion of thehair strand), the following parts [are provided: Arcuate slots 120 are cut a sol through the disc 12, and there are secured to the'upper surface of the disc 11 a pair of female glove-fastener elements 14'. The familiar central tubular studs of these elements 14 are extended into the slots 120. Finally. the mating male glove-fastener elements 15 are inverted as shown in Figs. 1 and-5, and the'ir familiar central studs are thrust down byway of said slots 120 into the interiors of the studs of the elements 14.

The manner of attaching the elements 14 to 'the disc ll 'is, conveniently,"by way 'of erably the disc 11 is made of a soft felt.

. hen said disc is of felt, it will be comfortable against the scalp, and will transmit f very little if any heat to, the scalp during the application of heat to a hair strand thereabove being subjected to a permanent waving operation. The stitching just referred to would then be very c'onven1ent, and, moreover, there would be no metal or. other heat conducting or possibly uncomjfortable part on the side of the disc facing 'the scalp. The other disc 12 may, like the disc 11," 'be of any desired material, but at present this disc 12 ispreferred .to be made of a v harder and stiffer material than felt, as metal,

composition, leather, fiber or the like.

Before these discs are coupled as above.

explained, the bentwire; member 10jis assembled as shown in Fig. 1, the posts 10a being thrust upwardly ,.through apertures 12d, and the loop 10h'being either squeezed d own into the relatively soft felt material thedower 11 (ifthat disc be of felt),

the other being indicated at 126 in Fig. 3,

this on the underside of disc 12.

Where the disc 11 is of felt or some similar soft and yielding material, the attaching flanges of the glove-fastener elements 14 will sink therein, as illustrated in Fig. 5; if, in finally coupling up the discs, to establish the complete device as shown in Fig. 1, the design ot the' glove-fasteners l t-15 is such as to urge the disc into face-to-face contact.

7 Operation 7 As aforesaid, saiddevice is shown applied to the. hair strand 8'of Fig. 1, and here the discs 11 and 12, following the passing of the root portion of the hair strand through the aligned slots 11b and 126, are illustrated as having been relatively fractionally rotated to cause said discs to coa ot to become'completely embrasive of the hair strand. g

Now, said hair strand is wound relative to the posts10a; in any one ofv several Ways, as

will now be described, but always to present compact column of hairof a size or shape convenient for use, when desired, with any standard form of heat applying sleeve, how

ever heated, as used in present or future permanent waving machines. The device may of course beused for giving a wave to persist only until the next washing, as by applyinga v Fig. 4, when'elxamined in the light ofthe stlt'chlng'as indicated in Flg. 2; s1nce, prefaboveexplained, is, generally (if a true longnatural wave, such as that illustrated at W in FigzG, is to be given to the lower subdivision of the strand) wound as shown in Fig. 1 and as indicated in dot and dash lines in Fig.

4. This winding of the strand involves, it;

will be noted, a series of continuously reverslng 0011s; that 1s, afirst coll wound around one post in one direction, a second coil wound aroundthe other post in the opposite di- 'rection, a third coil' wound around the first; post in the first direction, and so on. This reversely curved coilingup of the hair strand .may continue all*the, way to the top of the post; or, if the strand be very long, to the top of the post and then down spirally over the;

previously wound hair onthe two'posts, and

finally suitably tied. Where, as is now I thought to be ideal, a'tendril effect is desired at a terminal subdivision of the hair strand, following a wave effect between such tendrils and the hair roots, the operation illustrated in dot and dash lines in Fig. 4 and just described is continued for as many convolutions as desired, say part way up the posts 10a, 5 and then the remaining part of the strand is wound spirally around the two posts, or around one thereof, before being finally tied; this latter waving operation being illustrated clearly in Fig. 4, in broken lines, thereby to produce tendrils as shown at T in Fig. 6. And, if this part of the strand be very long, the spiralling of the strand around said post, after reaching the top thereof, can be continued downwardly along the hair already thereon, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4. As is usual, in any case, the last wound portion of or tip of the strand may be temporarily secured in place relative to the posts or to one of the posts. A common form of tying string for the purpose as illustrated in Fig. 4 at 16, located at the tip of the strand which has finally been wound as indicated in dotted lines in this view.

Since the posts a may laterally give toward each other, very many different effects are possible, according as the strand of hair is wound wholly or partially about one or both posts. Also, and this is a very important point,the hair filaments cannot be broken or damaged in any way, due not only to the resiliency of such posts, permitting a yield toward each other, but because in thecase of the reversely looped strand portions there is considerable elasticity and give. 35 Considerable particularities of description, as to materials, part details, dimensions, capacities and utilities may have been herein indulged in, but it will be understood that these statements, made with particular reference to that one, and the one now pre ferred, of the many possible embodiments of the invention which is illustrated in the drawings, are not in any way to be taken as definitive or limitative of the invention. In-

asmuch as many changes could be made in 1. In a hair waving device, the combination of a plurality of substantially parallel movable relative to each. other so that the slots may be moved into and out of registration with each other and positive fastening means for releasably holding said discs to gether and adapted to allow relative movement of said disc while holding the same to each other. e I

3. In a hair waving device, stacked discs, each disc having a radial slot, the discs being movable relative to each other so that the slots may be moved into and out of registration with each other, positive fastening means for releasably holding said discs together, oneofsaid discs being slidable relative to said fastening means.

4:. In a hair waving device, stacked discs, each disc having a radial slot, the discs being movable relative to each other so that the slots may be moved into and out of registration with each other, positive fastening means for releasably holding said discs together, one of said discs being slidable relative to said fastening means, said fastening means consisting of snap fasteners.

In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature.

SOTER B. TUSIS.

tion which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

In other words, the scope of protection contemplated is to be taken solely from the appended claims, interpreted as broadly as is consistent with the prior art.

as I claim: 

